Button and fastening therefor



(No Model.) P M BAKER BUTTON AND FASTENING THEREFOR;

No. 324,212. Patented Aug. 11, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. BAKER, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON AND FASTENING THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,212, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed January 2, 1855.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK M. BAKER, of

' Birmingham, in the county of New Haven the button; Fig. 2, a back view of the button;

Fig. 3, a perspective sectional view of the fastening; Fig. 4, a sectional view of the button and fastening as applied.

usual forms, such as seen in Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in buttons, adapted to be secured to the clothing by a metallic fastening of an eyelet-like character; the object of the invention being to not only firmly secure the button but at the same time grasp the edge of the fabric around the opening through which the button is attached; and the invention consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

The face of the button may be of any of the At the center is a concentric opening, a. Onthe back of the button around this opening isa downwardly-projecting flauge,,b. The fastehing is of an eyelet character, the tubular portion at of which (see Fig. 3) is of a diameter corresponding to the opening a through the button. On one end of the tubular portion is a flange, e, forming a head for the fastening. In the flange and close to the body of the eyelet is a groove, f, which corresponds to the flange b on the back of the button. The length of the body of the tubular portion is sufficient to pass through the material to which the but- (No model.)

ton is to be attached and project above the opening a in the button.

A hole is pierced in the material A to which the button is to be attached, as seen in Fig. 4:, and the tubular portion introduced through that opening, leaving the flange upon the reverse side. The button is then set over the tube, and the upper end of the tube struck g down into the cavity .in the button. This forces the flange 1) down upon the fabric, olosing the fabric around the tube into the cavity 6 in the flange below, as seen in Fig. 4;, so that while the fabric is closed between the flange and the back of the button, the edge of the material is held secure by the flange in the.

cavity, and so as to prevent the tearing away around the hole by a strain upon the buttonthat is to say, the flange and the cavity-e form substantially a binding for the hole through the fabric.

It is advisable to make the flange concave upon its upper sidethat is, its edge turned upward to better embrace and close upon the fabric; but this is not essential to my invention.

I claim A button having a concentric opening, a,

with a flange, b, on the back around said openthrough the opening in the button and be set upon the surface of the button around the opening, substantially as described.

' FRANK M. BAKER. WVitnesses:

CHAS. T. WELLS, WV. E. COLT. 

